Daily links 06/04/2013
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La rete nasce dalla fine delle organizzazioni | Apogeonline
this is what I did last weekend.
The State of the Net conference in Trieste is one of the few events with substance and worth attending.
Daily links 06/03/2013
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Birmingham: How to kill a city | The Economist
make sure you watch the video linked to in the last paragraph
Daily links 04/30/2013
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Publishing Open Data – Do you really need an API? | Peter Krantz
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Government: Do You Really Need An API? – Sunlight Foundation Blog
Good points, well presented.
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10 Awesome Examples of Ecommerce Sites Using Responsive Web Design | Business 2 Community
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Why Facebook is blue: The science of colors in marketing – The Buffer Blog
Also fascinating
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The secrets of body language: why you should never cross your arms again – The Buffer Blog
Fascinating
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Open government reboot focuses on APIs instead of data | Ars Technica
Good comment on this article by longhairedboy:
In many ways, the new initiative is an attempt to correct the failings of the government’s first “open data” effort, Data.gov.This is stupid, actually. The Data.gov effort did not fall short because of clunky data formats, but rather because funding was drastically cut.
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/da … _by_75.phpMany others have more thoughtfully described the problems with providing government data as APIs and I’ll provide links. Basically, the first step should always be providing data as downloads as easy to use text files like CSV. APIs are much harder to design and support. As a result of being underfunded in the government space they typically perform too poorly to be relied on my 3rd parties. Read more here:
http://sunlightlabs.com/blog/2012/gover … ed-an-api/
http://www.peterkrantz.com/2012/publish … pi-design/
http://sgillies.net/blog/1101/does-plei … ve-an-api/Government agencies shouldn’t be spinning their wheels thinking about XML vs JSON, RESTful vs SOA. They should be concerned with providing accurate, timely, and extensive information in simple plain text formats. Once this is achieved, it _may_ make sense to start thinking about APIs for a subset of those datasets.”
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could this be used for my data streams from various QS sensors, apps and platforms?
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